Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Book, Movie, and Field Trip

I finally hit upon a CHAPTER book that the boys love enough to read, even without me. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I wish I had read it when I was a kid. It’s so good! Funny, yes, but also FULL of great life lessons. Joshua and Caleb give it all their thumbs up. I would love to say that I timed it on purpose to coincide with our CC group’s Chocolate Factory Tour field trip…..but no. It was just […]

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12 Things I’ve Learned from Home Schooling

We have officially made it through our very first QUARTER of home-schooling!!!  To me, this is the biggest deal since accomplishing the cross-country move. Oy. What a year! So here we go……12 things I want to remember from our FIRST quarter of 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and Preschool here at Pacific Christian Academy: 1. It’s really all about me. No, you read that right. It is almost always the case that how well THEIR day goes depends very much on […]

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Visiting with Humpback Whales

While my parents were here, we wanted to be sure that we all got the full California experience…..soooooo we went hunting for movie stars…. Ha! No, that’s not us at all. We don’t even know who any of the current stars are, really. Nah, we figured a more authentic California experience would be if we…….all got Marijuana prescription cards….NOOOOOO just KIDDING!!!  We took our guests WHALE watching, of course!!! You didn’t really believe me, did you? I got that prescription idea […]

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Time Deprived

  Tonight the main thing my brain is stuck on is this:  Why can’t there be more hours in the day? I want to do it all. Every single thing. I want to wake up early and stay up late. I want to read my Bible before the day hits me in the face. I want to homeschool, have a neat and tidy house, and maintain a blog successfully–all at once. I want to stop and smell the roses. What […]

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